Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-04
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GUM, so Satan brought Christ to the top of
the temple. Some people at a great height
feel dizzy, and have a strange disposition
to jump. so Satan comes to Christ with a
powerful temptation in that very crisis.
Standing there at the top of the temple,
they look off. A magnificent reach of
country. Grain fields, vineyards, olive
groves, forests. and streams, cattle in the
valleys, focks on the hills, and villages and
cities and realms. "Now," says Satan, "Ill
make a bargain. Just Jump off. 1 know it
is a great way from the top of the temple
to the valley, but if you are divine you can
fly. Jump off. It won't hurt you. Angels
will catch you. Your Father will hold you.
Besides, I'll make you a large present Il
you will. I'll give you Asia Minor, ~
give you India. III give you China, IN q
give you Ethiopia, III give you Italy, TIL
Ill give you Britain, I'll give you ali the
world" What q humiliation it must have
been!
Go tomorrow morning and get i'll an al
tercation with some wretch crawling up from
a gin cellar in the Fourth Ward, New York.
"No," you say; Il would not bemean my
self by getting into such a controversy"
Then think of what the King of heaven
and earth endured when he came down and
fought that great wretch of hell, and
fought him in the wilderness and on the
top of the temple. But 1 bless God that
in the triumph over temptation Christ gives
us the assurance that we also shall triumph.
Having himself been tempted, he is able to
succor all those who are tempted.
In a violent storm at sea the mate told a
boy-for the rigging had become entangled
in the mast-to 60 up and right it. A gen.
tleman standing on the deck said: Don't
send that boy up; he will be dashed to
DEATH" The mate said: Il know what /
am about" The boy raised his hat in
recognition of the order, and then rose,
hand over hand, and went to work; and as
he swung in the storm the passengers
wrung their hands and expected to see him
fall. The work done, he came down in
safety, and a Christian man said to him:
"Why did you go down in the forecastle
before you went up?" "Ah," said the boy,
II went down to pray. My mother always
taught me before l undertook anything
great to pray" "What is that you have in
your vest?" said the man. 80, that is the
New Testament" he said; Il thought I
would carry it with me if 1 really did go
overheard" How we'll that boy was pro-
tected! care not how great the height
or how vast the depth, with Christ within
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above US, and Christ all around us, nothing
shall befall US in the way of harm. Christ
himself, having been in the tempest, will
deliver all those who put their trust in
Him. Blessed be His glorious name for
ever.
The third installment paid for our re-
demption was the Sayior's sham trial. l
call it q sham trial-there has never been
anything so indecent or unfair in the
Tombs Court of New York as was wit
messed at the trial of Christ. Why, they
hustled Him into the courtroom at two
o'clock in the morning. They gave Him
no time for counsel. They gave Him no
time for ~subp9naing witnesses. The ruff
fans who were wandering around through
the midnight, of course they saw the ar
rest and went into the courtroom. But
Jesus friends were sober men, were respec-
the morning, of course they were at home
asleep. Consequently Christ entered the
courtroom with the rufians.
Oh, look at Him! No one to speak a
word for Him. I lift the lantern until
can look into His face, and as my heart
beats in sympathy for this, the best friend
the world ever had, himself now utterly
friendless, an officer of the court room
comes up and smites Him in the mouth,
and I see the blood stealing from gum aud
lip. Oh, it was a farce Of a trial, lasting
only perhaps an hour, and then the judge
rises for the SENTENCED! 1t is against the
law to give sentence unless there has been
an adjournment of the court between con-
domination and sentence, but what cares
this Judge for the law. The man has no
friends-let him die" says the Judge, and
the rufians outside the rail cry: "Aha!
ohat fhof'c u-hof VIC u-o0f- hic h1on1
Hand him out here to us. Away with him.
away with him!" Oh, I bless God that
amid all the injustice that may be inflicted
upon III in this world we have a divine
sympathizer. The world cannot lie about
you nor abuse you as much as they did
Christ, and Jesus stands to-day in every
courtroom. in every store, and says:
Courage! By all my hours of maltreat-
ment and abuse, I will protect those who
are trampled on" And when Christ for
gets that two o'clock in the morning scene,
and the stroke of the rufian on the mouth,
andthe bowling of the unwashed crowd then
He will forget you and me in the injustices
of life that may be inflicted upon US.
Some of you want deliverance from your
troubles. God knows you have enough OF
them. Physical troubles, domestic troubles,
spiritual troubles, financial troubles. You
have been gathering them up, some per-
haps for five, or six, or seven years. and
you have them divided into two classes
those you can talk about and those you
cannot talk about; and as those griefs are
the most grinding and depressing which
you cannot mention, you get coincidence
for the things you can speak of, while you
get no coincidence for the things that you
cannot. In your school days you learned
how to bound the States and could tell
what rivers and lakes and mountains ran
through them. If you were asked to-day
to bound your worldly estate you would say
it is bounded on the north by trouble, and
on the south by trouble, and on the east by
trouble, and on the west by trouble, while
rivers of tears and lakes of woe and
mountains Of disaster run through it. What
are you goingto do with yourtroubles? Why
do you not go to the theater and have your
mind absorbed in some tragedy. "Oh,
you say, everything I have seen OIL
compared with the tragedy OF
M w life!" We'll, then, why do you
not 60 to your trunks and closets and gather
up oil the mementos of your departed
friends and put them out of sight, and take
down their pictures from the wall and put
in the frame'a harvest scene or some bright
and gay spectacle? "Ah," you say, "if ]
should remove all these mementos of my
departed friends, hat would not take away
the killing pictures that are hanging in
the gallery of my own heart. Well, if thai